How Facebook’s Filter Bubble Warped My Perception of Reality

I couldn’t believe Donald Trump kept winning. Every primary he won, headline he weaseled his way into, and incendiary statement he made, it all seemed unbelievable. The group reaction seemed to be: No one believed this could happen. Liberals, moderates, and even conservatives siding against Trump watch his meteoric rise with dropped jaws. They shouldn’t. But it’s understandable why they do.Read the full article

fivethirtyeight.com - 8 readers - In 2007, I woke up every morning — alarm set with a 1980s or ’90s TV show theme song — opened my computer and searched the term “poll” on Google. I did this through the spri…